Category Archives: Recipes

It’s hard for me to believe that I have never posted about Carbonara because it’s one of my wifes absolute favorites. On the three trips we’ve taken to Italy I think she’s tried them all! This recipe can be made with any kind of pasta but spaghetti and tortellini are our favorites.

This is such an easy recipe and comes together as fast as you can cook the pasta, al dente of course!

Start by boiling water to cook the pasta, per package instructions. Just after you drop the pasta in the water, place the pancetta into a heated pan with the olive oil and heat on medium-high heat. After about a minute add the onion to the pan and lower heat to medium. Cook for two minutes and add about 1/2 cup of the pasta water from the cooking pasta. This starts a sauce in the pan and the starch will help begin to make the sauce creamy.

Continue to cook until the pasta is al dente and drain the pasta but reserve about a cup of the pasta water.

Add the drained pasta to the pan and incorporate all ingredients and add fresh ground pepper (to taste but don’t skip it!).

Add a cup of the cheese to the egg yolks and incorporate.

Remove the pan from the heat and add the egg whites to the pan and mix quickly to incorporate adding the reserved pasta water. Then add the egg yolk and cheese mixture and combine thoroughly. Top with fresh parsley and remaining cheese and serve!

If you want to be adventurous, you can wait to add the egg yolk to the individual servings and let your guest mix it as they eat!

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As you know most of my recipes are at least modified from the original unless I make them up myself. This one is only slightly modified so I am linking directly to the allrecipes.com link I used. I eliminated the Okra from my version because I don’t like it, but I pretty much used this exactly and it was amazing!

This is my first time at trying Jambalaya and after reading a few recipes online, I decided to make the recipe up myself. I cooked a pork butt yesterday and made pulled pork rice bowls and as you know if you’ve ever made pulled pork, there are always many leftovers. We were getting tired of the pork, so I figured I’d mix it up and add it to Jambalaya instead of Kielbasa. If you like this recipe you could add anything to it that you like, including summer sausage, ham, or even okra or crab meat! I used a leftover grilled chicken breast and some frozen shrimp!

In a dutch oven over medium heat, melt the butter and add the onion, celery and peppers to the same pot and saute for 8 to 10 minutes, until the onion is soft. Add the tomato, garlic, jalapeno, cayenne, oregano and cook until all the vegetables and herbs are blended well.

Add the stock and bring to a rolling boil. Stir in the rice, and add the left over pulled pork and grilled chicken, bay leaves, salt, pepper and hot sauce. Return to a boil, reduce the heat to low and simmer, covered, for 20 minutes.

Add 1/4 cup of the scallions, 1/4 cup of the parsley, the lemon juice and the shrimp, and stir well. Cover and remove it from the heat and allow the jambalaya to steam for 5 minutes. Serve and top with green oniona and jalepeno. A dolop of sour cream on top will cut the heat and a dd a little texture!

I’ve seen fried zucchini blossoms on TV many times but have never tried making them at home. I planted a zucchini plant this year and it’s really doing well. We’ve gotten several large zucchini’s so far and I decided to try something different and fry up some blossoms.

I started with making a beer batter which I added Sriracha to in order to spice it up a bit.

This is an original recipe I made up inspired by a dry spice packet I purchased in Tuscany for making Pici All’aglione, which is a spicy tomato sauce. The spice packet is a mixture of dry italian herbs and crushed red pepper. I did this in the style of making aglio e olio but added the spices to the oil when infusing the garlic with the olive oil. You want to use a high quality olive oil for the best taste!

This recipe is great whether you use store-bought Ravioli or make your own. See my homemade ravioli recipe here if you want to make them fresh: https://sundaywithachanceofmeatballs.com/2014/12/15/homemade-ravioli/

Cook the Ravioli per instructions. While the ravioli are cooking add two tablespoons olive oil to a medium skillet. Add the crushed red pepper, dry italian herbs and garlic cloves and simmer slowly over medium-low heat until the garlic begins to brown. This should take 5-10 mins. Don’t let the oil get to a temp that fry the garlic-it should be a slow simmer.

Once the ravioli is cooked add them to the skillet and toss them to coat.

Transfer them to a plate and cover with fresh Parmigiano Reggiano to you taste!

I love all kinds of wonton recipes including fried, steamed and now baked! I got this recipe from A Taste of Home. This is a slightly modified version of the original, as I used a hot chili mixture to spice it up a bit!

In a small bowl, mix salad dressing and seasoning mix; add chicken and toss to coat. Spoon 1 tablespoon filling into each wonton cup. Sprinkle with cheese.

Bake 8-10 minutes longer or until heated through and wrappers are golden brown. Serve warm. If desired, top with sour cream and green onions before serving. On my second batch I added a little Sriracha to spice it up even further!